Re: SATA cards was Re: Hard drive recommendations

2008-09-09 Thread Peter
On Sep 9, 2008, at 2:22 PM, J Winter wrote: With that in mind: Instead of what i had planned: internal drive of under 100 gig, should I be getting some card for PCMIA slot that would allow me to use a SATA (they're so less expensive) or some other drive for internal use? For my Toshiba, I

SATA cards was Re: Hard drive recommendations

2008-09-04 Thread diane
At 2:35 PM -0700 9/3/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 2, 6:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the G5, the Seagate 1 TB SATA drive was $160 at Frys a couple of weeks ago. I don't know if it will go there again soon, but it has certainly been at $170 (169.99) pretty

Re: SATA cards was Re: Hard drive recommendations

2008-09-04 Thread dc
SATA drives are being actively developed, so improvements like the 32 MB cache are available on SATA before they appear on PATA drives. I have one with the new large cache and it performs very well. I'm using a SeriTek/1V4 which boots 3 SATA RAID 0 drives in my G5/Leopard. It is well-supported,

Re: SATA cards was Re: Hard drive recommendations

2008-09-04 Thread Peter
On Sep 4, 2008, at 4:29 AM, diane wrote: Thinking of the future here, I am wondering if I wouldn't be well served to buy a SATA PCI (not express) card for the FW800. I would go with PCI-E, more particularly the Silicon Image 3132 chip set. These are even available for laptops (-34 size)

Re: SATA cards was Re: Hard drive recommendations

2008-09-04 Thread diane
At 12:46 PM -0700 9/4/08, Peter wrote: On Sep 4, 2008, at 4:29 AM, diane wrote: Thinking of the future here, I am wondering if I wouldn't be well served to buy a SATA PCI (not express) card for the FW800. I would go with PCI-E, more particularly the Silicon Image 3132 chip set. I can't do

Re: SATA cards was Re: Hard drive recommendations

2008-09-04 Thread Peter
On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:13 PM, diane wrote: I would go with PCI-E, more particularly the Silicon Image 3132 chip set. I can't do that in a G4 FW800 though, can I? For those who are stuck with PCI (not PCI-E) there is the Sil 3512 chipset PCI card. I have no experience with it, but the

Re: SATA cards was Re: Hard drive recommendations

2008-09-04 Thread Ernest L. Gunerius
On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:13 PM, diane wrote: I would go with PCI-E, more particularly the Silicon Image 3132 chip set. I can't do that in a G4 FW800 though, can I? For those who are stuck with PCI (not PCI-E) there is the Sil 3512 chipset PCI card. I have no experience with it, but the